Elections Legislation: Recap and Preview | OAS Episode 179

On this episode, we sat down with Amanda Zoch, an elections expert at NCSL, for a rundown on the trends in legislation affecting elections over the past few years.

Zoch discusses how the pandemic affected access to early voting and voting by mail and what steps legislatures took once the most acute phase of the pandemic had passed. Legislation affecting election officials, including measures to keep them safe, were common in 2021 and 2022, Zoch says. She also explains the ballot measures voters supported that affected elections.